WILSON

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Independent Journal
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
Page 4

WILLIAM W. WILSON

A private funeral has been held for William W. “Buzz” Wilson, 74, of Coronado, a former longtime resident of Kentfield.

Wilson, a retired partner in the commodity brokerage firm of Herrgott & Wilson in San Francisco, died in Coronado Jan. 7 after a long illness.

Wilson was a member of the Merchants Exchange Club and World Trade Club in San Francisco, the New York Produce Exchange and the American Arbitration Association.

He also served on the National Panel of Arbitrators in New York.

Wilson served in the Army Air Corps in Italy during World War II as an intelligence officer and personnel staff director.

After the war he became co-founder of the commodity brokerage firm in San Francisco. Wilson had been a resident of Kentfield from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s.

He graduated from the University of Washington in 1930 and attended the University of California at Los Angeles and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth Wilson, and a son William Wesley Wilson Jr. of Belvedere.